Webcomic / The Adventures Of Business Cat

Boss. Billionaire. Business Maverick. Cat.

The adventures of Business Cat is a webcomic created by Tom Fonder and Rachael Robins, the former staying on to draw the comics until it ended. It is about a cat who is also a CEO of a business. With a business-focused mind and a cats'...catness, Hilarity Ensues as he and his company gets work done.

The comic series ran from January 7th, 2014, all the way to September 7th, 2018. You can view the archive here, or start from the beginning here.

This Work provides examples of:

• Achievements in Ignorance: Business Cat getting stuck in a drawer in "Drawer".
• Alt Text: Underneath each comic is a gag related to the situation. For example, in "Carpet", BC is ripping it out, and it just says "you should see the sofas".
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "Job Description" has Business Cat look for redundant workers, and Head of Marketing is called in, and she points out that they're in charge of product research, market analysis, brand management, as well as filling up his food bowl when Janet isn't around. This last point convinces him that she needs to stay.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Business Cat changes directions to chase a butterfly in "Butterfly".
• Bait-and-Switch: Quite a lot of the strips rely on this:
  • "Briefcase": Business Cat puts cat toys in his case, not documents or pens.
  • "Charm" has Business Cat meeting with Tokyo Motors, and he exclaims he'll "Dial up the charm". Instead of acting confident and suave, he goes on all fours and brushes up against their legs, much like a real cat.
  • "Email" has Business Cat send an email to Ted for a presentation, but the email is complete gibberish.
  • "Dangerous Liaisons" has Janet and Business Cat look like they're about to make out in BC's office, but Janet is actually going to scratch his belly.
  • "Lunch" has Business Cat tell his guests at a restaurant that the food is tastes really good, but when asked he orders his usual; Canned Tuna, with a mint leaf on top of the can.
  • "Drastic Action" has Business Cat chew into Michaels for insubordination, and BC looks like he's ready to fire him... Instead he sprays water at him.
  • "Gratitude" has Business Cat award Ted with his own catflap, not improvements to his office as he was expecting.
  • "Ride" has Business Cat take the company car to meeting investors, which turns out to be a roomba.
  • "Inspection" has Business Cat vet all the candidates for his company, and shows him sniffing the candidates.
  • "Training" has Business Cat train the new recruits not on working in an office, but by dangling a fish on a line toy in front of him
  • "Emergency" has Business Cat sit on the fallen paper drawers instead of helping the crushed employee.
  • "Dealings" sets the scene up for Business Cat to be buying drugs, when in fact he's buying catnip.
  • "Pet" shows a mans head on a cats body, which is apparently Business Cats....cat. Janet is not pleased.
  • "Jailbird" features a man with a parrot for a head.
• Butt-Monkey: Poor Steve. Steve is always getting sat on or having his laptop destroyed.
• Call-Back: Racial Sensitivity Training appears in "Sensitivity" and "Superstition", both times for people making fun of cats.
• Cat Folk: Business Cat, though he is more human than cat it seems.
• Cats Are Lazy: Business cat is this to a T. He sits on laps during his work time.
• Cats Are Mean: A few times, though often he's so Innocently Insensitive that Business Cat just doesn't know that he's doing something mean.
• Cats Hate Water: Brushes off a water puddle in "Puddle".
• Cat Up a Tree: "Running Late" has this. Firemen were called, and Business Cat had to call his office saying that he'll be late.
• Cliffhanger: "Ceremony" has the awards man have a stroke to keep up the tension.
• Cuteness Proximity: "Negotiations" has Business Cat pull a cute face to get the investor on board.
• Deus ex Machina: "Deus Ex Crabina" offers Business Cat to blackmail Howard with images to get his company back.
• Disproportionate Restitution: In "Pay Rise", one of the employees gets a pay rise...of a dead bird. Business cat doesn't see the issue, but the employee clearly looks concerned.
• Drunk on Milk: A literal case in "Budget", as Business Cat has what appears to be several thousand cartons of milk in his office.
• Exact Words: The Accountant in "Numbers" says that someone needs to be made redundant, so Business Cat fires the accountant.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • "Sensitivity" has two employees look at a cat meme, and Business Cat looks concerned. He sends them to "Racial Sensitivity Training" in response.
  • "Superstition" has Janet be sent to the Racial Sensitivity Training for saying that crossing a black cat is bad luck.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Penelope, a former pet of a young girl, changes their name to Princess Sparkle while smoking a cigarette.
• Fly Crazy: "Networking" has this as to how Business Cat loses a potential client.
• Furry Confusion: Business Cat runs into a regular grey cat in "Territory", and in "Waiting Room", he runs into a siamese cat, as well as a dog in the vets. Muddying things further is the follow-up strip "Consult", which clearly shows a "feline anatomy" poster in the vet clinic.
• Furry Reminder: A lot of the humor comes from the cat-related shenanigan's that are clearly based on what cats do in real life, such as getting stuck up a tree, drinking whiskey from a saucer, retrieving dead birds and knocking things off of high places, among other things.
• Innocently Insensitive: A lot of the gags are based on typical cat behaviour, and it comes off as Business Cat being a Bad Boss, when in reality, he's just not used to some forms of human interaction.
• Kids Prefer Boxes: Or rather, "furry half-human cats prefer boxes" in this case:
  • "Photocopier" has this as the gag. Business cat ordered said copier, and throws the copier away, and plays in the box.
  • "Valhalla" has Business Cats' office be filled with Boxes, and he couldn't be happier.
• Limited Wardrobe: BC is almost always seen in his three-piece suit, even when he's cooking in "Dinner", he wears a pink apron over his business suit. Howard T. Business Pug is similarly only seen in suits.
• Mundane Solution: Janet needs to keep Business Cat in his office, and accomplishes this by putting double-sided tape down.
• Mood Whiplash: "Good Guys" has the final panel have the normally serious Howard be completely Kawaii by being called a good boy. The same thing happens when he reacts to "walk" in "Prodigal Son".
• No OSHA Compliance: Business Cats' house, as seen in "Tower".
• Noodle Incident:
  • The cat Business Cat meets in "Territory". The street cat banged him up pretty good, and he only says "There was an altercation" in response to his black eye. The title implies it was to do with marking his territory.
  • "Emporium" lists off jobs Business Cat has been fired from; carboard box factory, string factory, lasagna factory, and the mug factory.
• "Not So Different" Remark: In "Aftermath" Howard claims that they're too different to be friends, and both him and Business Cat run off at the sound of a vacuum cleaner.
• Photo Montage: Business Cat cannot keep still in "Photo", and all the bad takes make up the third panel.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Business Cat serves flies at "Dinner", while wearing a pink flowery apron, and wearing pink oven gloves. This, by the way, is over his suit.
• Secret Santa: In the eponymously-named comic, Business Cat gives Rob a dead rabbit carcass. The smug grin on his face is something to behold.
• Sensitivity Training: "Sensitivity" has employees making fun of cats with a meme they saw online, landing them in Racial Sensitivity Training, while Janet in "Superstition" recounts the superstition of never crossing a black cat, which lands her in the same training course.
• Serial Escalation:
  • "Medication" has Janet feed him deworming tablets in his food, but he spits it out. "Trial and Error" has Janet crumble the tablet up in his food, but B.C reconstitutes the crumbled tablet, and spits it out.
  • "Factory" has Business Cat work at a mug factory, where just has to watch them being made, which makes him sweat nervously, while "Emporium" has him work in an Endangered Fly Emporium.
• Shout-Out:
  • "Computer Problems" has the video Business Cat is trying to get be of "Winter Birds", a video made to entertain cats.
  • The Smash Dojo website for Smash 3DS/ Wii U is a browser tab on "Sensitivity".
• Sleeping with the Boss: Janet and Business Cat, seen in "Early Riser".
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: Howard and Business Cat in "Wager".
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: "Email" has Business Cat send an email to Ted.... and it's just a bunch of repeated letters and punctuation.
• A Storm Is Coming: Howard in "Telephone" has his window filled with lightening and stormy weather.
• Take That!: "Waiting Room" has Business Cat read a lifestyle magazine called "Body Shame", poking fun at that category of magazines' preference for using slim, airbrushed models on their covers.
• The Mole: The employee asking Business Cat about his day is the mole for searching his accounts for Howard in "Cloak and Dagger"
• The Rival: Howard T. Business Pug, first introduced in "Confrontation".
• What, Exactly, Is His Job?. The business B.C runs is never mentioned. Whatever it is, it's successful. "Demonstration" Lampshades this.

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